The Philanderer

ISBN-13: 9781554812639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str.

Bernard Shaw; L. W. Conolly; Leonard Conolly

Opis

L.W. Conolly's new edition of one of Shaw's most controversial plays restores an early final act of the play removed from all previous published versions.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Bernard Shaw: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Philanderer

Appendix A: Shaw’s Original Final Act to The Philanderer (1893)

Appendix B: Shaw’s Prefaces to Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant and The Philanderer

1. From the Preface to Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
2. Prefatory Note to The Philanderer (1931)

Appendix C: Shaw and Ibsen

1. From Clement Scott’s Review of Ghosts, Daily Telegraph (14 March 1891)
2. From the Daily Telegraph Editorial on Ghosts (14 March 1891)
3. From Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1928)

Appendix D: Marriage and Divorce

1. From the “Solemnization of Matrimony,” Book of Common Prayer (1901)
2. From An Act to Amend the Law Relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England (1857)
3. From “Indissolubility of Marriage,” Lipincott’s (July 1890)
4. From Shaw’s Preface to Getting Married (1911)

Appendix E: Medicine and Vivisection

1. From Shaw’s Preface to The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911)
2. From Shaw’s Speech on Vivisection, Queen’s Hall, London (22 May 1900)

Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews

1. From The Illustrated London News (9 February 1907)
2. The Athenaeum (9 February 1907)
3. From Max Beerbohm, “The Philanderer,” The Saturday Review (9 February 1907)
4. From The Era (9 February 1907)
5. The Sketch (13 February 1907)
6. From the New York Herald (29 December 1913)
7. From the New York Tribune (29 December 1913)
8. From The Theatre, New York (February 1914)
9. From St John Ervine, “The Philanderer,” The Observer (4 February 1923)

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